Masdar and Boeing’s Qatari catch-up
Posted by Big Gav in air transport, biofuel, boeing, masdar
Cleantech.com has an article on Masdar's aim to get into the biofuel for air transport market using saliconia - Masdar and Boeing’s Qatari catch-up.
Not to be upstaged by a similar announcement last week, a Masdar-led consortium today reiterated its own jet fuel from saltwater plant project, with an airline partner.
Masdar, Boeing and Honeywell’s UOP today announced details of a jet fuel from saltwater plant research project first acknowledged four months ago.
And included today was a new partner: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. ...
The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is to lead the project, aimed at assessing the technical, commercial and environmental viability of producing large scale jet fuel and co-products from the saltwater herb salicornia.
Others are investigating salicornia for biofuel use, given the plant’s tolerance for seawater, including experimental fields in Ras al-Zawr in Saudi Arabia, Eritrea in Northeast Africa, and Sonora in Northwest Mexico aimed at the production of biodiesel.
Cleantech.com also has a set of pictures of the (slowly) emerging Masdar city - Pictures from a walking tour of Masdar City.
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